Examples Of Cognitive Bias

While people deal with everyday life, a plethora of events is occurring throughout the day. Most people usually do a multitude of actions to resolve these events without thinking as well. This can be anything from trying to get to class as soon as possible, talking to someone that recently was introduced, or doing a kind of tradition at a football game. Cognitive Biases is defined as a systematic pattern of deviation from norm or rationality in judgment, whereby inferences about other people and situations may be drawn in an illogical fashion. This article will talk about a small sample of these situations and clarify what the meaning behind them. It shall discuss Negativity Bias, Confirmation Bias, Gamblers Fallacy, and Illusion of Control

It is defined as the tendency to search for, interpret, focus on and remember information in a way that confirms one's preconceptions meaning that the first time an individual is exposed to a new subject, that being an individual, place, or activity, their initial thoughts towards it will stay. This happened when I first tried ranch dressing on a salad and had a horrible experience with it. The bad event corresponding to eating with ranch left me with a bad memory. Ever since then, that dressing has been of pure disgust, though others approve of consumption especially if something within the food tasted

Many examples of this are seen, with octopuses deciding the “winner” of the next Super bowl, to a tradition of watching a game get a desired outcome for the Stanley Cup. Areas, where people see this, are mainly in sporting events but are not limited to that area. I have dealt with this when going to any football game, hockey match, or Magic the Gathering tournament. It seems everyone thinks that their own ritual will change any situation. This essay touched on the topics of Negativity Bias, Confirmation Bias, and Gamblers Fallacy, and Illusion of control. Each is just a few samples of a massive plethora of biases and theories based upon humanity. Most people have certain biases that govern their subconscious and will trigger if certain scenarios are met. It is hard to change some effects, like confirmation bias, after it has occurred because it easier to go along with preconceived notion rather than put the effort in reshaping thought